From the category archives:

Consumers

Looking for the nanotechnology in your life? There’s an app for that!

November 12, 2009

Okay so it’s more of a list of nanotech-enabled products than a lifestyle tool, but at the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, we’ve just released an iPhone version of our surprisingly successful web-based nanotech Consumer Products Inventory.

With findNano, it’s a piece of cake to search or browse through the 1000+ manufacturer-identified nanotechnology-enabled products in the inventory, [...]

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“Nano” from the 1970’s. Don Eigler, eat your heart out!

October 1, 2009

Twenty years ago, Don Eigler became the first person to manipulate and position individual atoms, making the breakthrough that many consider a pivotal moment in modern nanotechnology.  Unknown to Don and the rest of IBM team though (I assume), they were pipped to the “nano” post a full ten years earlier… by an Italian sparkling [...]

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Industry critics give nanotechnology sunscreens the thumbs up

July 3, 2009

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) – a US-based non-profit organization committed to using public information to protect public health and the environment – has just released what is probably the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the safety and effectiveness of using titanium dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens.  And their conclusion?

On balance, EWG [...]

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Carbon nanotubes rock—literally!

November 26, 2008

A nanotechnology fix for high-end audio addicts?
I’m sitting at my computer watching a surreal balletic movie—a sheet of highly aligned carbon nanotubes is being slowly stretched, then allowed to slowly contract.  In the background is a soundtrack of traditional-sounding Chinese music.
At least I think the soundtrack is over-dubbed, until I realize that the music is [...]

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Nanotechnology and cosmetics

November 6, 2008

UK Consumer Organization Which? Releases New Report
Who needs an emerging technologies blog when you have The Daily Mail?  For those of you that missed it, Wednesday’s on-line issue of the British tabloid newspaper highlighted
“The beauty creams with nanoparticles that could poison your body”
I’m so glad someone’s tracking this issue, while us folks over on [...]

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